Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Oplophoroidea

Acanthephyridae Spence Bate, 1888

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881b
Ephyrina Smith, 1885a
Heterogenys Chace, 1986
Hymenodora G.O. Sars, 1877
Kemphyra Chace, 1986
Meningodora Smith, 1882
Notostomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1881b

Literature

original description	Spence Bate, C., 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by the Challenger during the years 1873-76.— Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ”Challenger” during the years 1873-76 24: i-xc, 1-942, Plates 1-157.
basis of record	De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.

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Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Acanthephyridae Spence Bate, 1888. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:585943